Two ladies improve their aim by taking golf lessons from a ‘robot’ trainer, 1925

Gay club in Berlin, 1930

Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett signing a baseball for Sonny Capone, the son of Al Capone, 1931

Children celebrating Hitler’s birthday, 1934

DKW advertisement, 1935

In 1936, Hitler asked artillery-maker Gustav Krupp to build an artillery piece to defeat the new French Maginot Line. Krupp suggested a giant cannon with an 80-cm (31-inch) caliber. Hitler ordered two.

SS troops take a rest during the Berlin Olympics, 1936

The ‘walking machine’ at the National Bureau of Standards, for testing wear on shoes, 1937

Gas-driven taxis in a street in Birmingham, 1940.

A C-46 cargo plane is loaded by elephants somewhere in South-East Asia, 1940’s

A German soldier is eyed suspiciously by a young french girl, 1941

Heinrich Himmler listens to a Norwegian musician in his home, Norway, 1941

Bucharest, Romania, 1942

A Victory Garden in a Bomb Crater, London, 1943

U.S. landing ship tanks are seen from above as they pour military equipment onto the shores of Leyte island, to support invading forces in the Philippines, 1944 (AP Photo)

J.D Salinger working on ‘Catcher in the Rye’ during the Allied invasion of France. When he landed on the beaches of Normandy, he carried 6 chapters of the book in his pack, c. 1944 – 45

Gas mask being fitted to a mule by a Sikh soldier of the British Indian Army, c. 1939 – 1945

German soldiers watching footage of concentration camps, 1945

The only picture ever taken of the Colditz cock, a glider made of bed-sheets, floorboards and other material. It was built by British prisoners of war to try and escape the maximum security prison. 1945

A dove landing on Fidel Castro’s shoulder during an important speech. This landing has been the subject of much speculation, controversy, and worship. January 8, 1959

Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father and the only surviving member of the Frank family, revisiting the attic they spent the war in, 1960

A hotline for getting directions before satnav, 1963

A British Army Ammunition Technical Officer approaches a suspect device in Northern Ireland, 1970